Actress Hema Malini wrote, "Happy Birthday to my everlasting love, the dearest father to my darling girls and proud grandfather to Darien and Radhya. I thank all the numerous fans who are sending their greetings to me on Dharamji's birthday and I will definitely convey their wishes to him."

Shobhaa De, Hema Malini and Rajkamal Mukherjee with moderator Srijana Mitra Das during ‘Seventy is the New Seventy Who the hell wants to be thirty?’ session on Day 3 of Times Litfest Mumbai 2017, held at Mehboob Studios, in Mumbai, on December 17, 2017.